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Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates | Singularity Hub

Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates | Singularity Hub | Science News | Scoop.it

There is one important lesson, however, to be learned from Benjamin Gompertz’s mysterious observation. By looking at theories of human mortality that are clearly wrong, we can deduce that our fast-rising mortality is not the result of a dangerous environment, but of a body that has a built-in expiration date.

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WHO links child mortality to economic crisis

WHO links child mortality to economic crisis | Science News | Scoop.it
The World Health Organisation warned on Saturday that only a stronger political commitment to child health could prevent a dangerous rise in mortality rates at a time of global economic turmoil.
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